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History Of The Indian Caste System And Its Impact On India Today, Manali S. Deshpande
History Of The Indian Caste System And Its Impact On India Today, Manali S. Deshpande
Social Sciences
The Indian Caste System is historically one of the main dimensions where people in India are socially differentiated through class, religion, region, tribe, gender, and language. Although this or other forms of differentiation exist in all human societies, it becomes a problem when one or more of these dimensions overlap each other and become the sole basis of systematic ranking and unequal access to valued resources like wealth, income, power and prestige. The Indian Caste System is considered a closed system of stratification, which means that a person’s social status is obligated to which caste they were born into. There …
Tweeting The Dalai Lama, Are Cell Phones Becoming The New Vajras?, Ronald S. Green
Tweeting The Dalai Lama, Are Cell Phones Becoming The New Vajras?, Ronald S. Green
Philosophy and Religious Studies
On February 22, 2010 the Office of the 14th Dalai Lama joined the online microblogging site Twitter. Twitter is an internet based community, ranked the world’s third most used online social network by Compete.com. Members post messages called “tweets” that are displayed on to their profile pages and delivered to their subscribers, known as followers. The Dalai Lama reportedly joined Twitter after meeting the site’s founder, Evan Williams, although Mr. Williams posted on his own Twitter page that the Dalai Lama had laughed when he suggested the idea to him.1 However, the account may have been set up one week …
Sexuality, Exoticism, And Iconoclasm In The Media Age: The Strange Case Of The Buddha Bikini, James Mark Shields
Sexuality, Exoticism, And Iconoclasm In The Media Age: The Strange Case Of The Buddha Bikini, James Mark Shields
Faculty Contributions to Books
No abstract provided.
The Emotional Lives Of Buddhist Monks In Modern Thai Film, Justin Mcdaniel
The Emotional Lives Of Buddhist Monks In Modern Thai Film, Justin Mcdaniel
Journal of Religion & Film
As Phra Tham, a forest monk from Southern Thailand, traveled by train from his monastery to his home town for his younger sister’s cremation, he is tormented by visions of Muslim passengers wanting to kill him and the site of his sister being blown apart by a terrorist bomb. He is on the verge of tears the entire trip. This early scene in Nonzee Nimibutr’s film, OK Baytong, is one of many in recent Thai films which depict Southeast Asian Buddhist monks exhibiting extreme emotional joy, anger, or distress. Other films depict monks laughing hysterically, lashing out violently, sobbing uncontrollably, …
How Tibet Buddhists In The United States Negotiate Mental Health Concerns, Paul Peter Sireci
How Tibet Buddhists In The United States Negotiate Mental Health Concerns, Paul Peter Sireci
Theses, Dissertations, and Projects
No abstract provided.
Lao Buddhist Women: Quietly Negotiating Religious Authority, Karma Lekshe Tsomo Phd
Lao Buddhist Women: Quietly Negotiating Religious Authority, Karma Lekshe Tsomo Phd
Theology and Religious Studies: Faculty Scholarship
Throughout years of war and political upheaval, Buddhist women in Laos have devotedly upheld traditional values and maintained the practice of offering alms and other necessities to monks as an act of merit. In a religious landscape overwhelmingly dominated by bhikkhus (fully ordained monks), a small number have renounced household life and become maekhaos, celibate women who live as nuns and pursue contemplative practices on the periphery of the religious mainstream. Patriarchal ecclesiastical structures and the absence of a lineage of full ordination for women have combined to render the religious roles of Buddhist nuns and laywomen virtually invisible throughout …
Taking Conventional Truth Seriously: Authority Regarding Deceptive Reality, Jay L. Garfield
Taking Conventional Truth Seriously: Authority Regarding Deceptive Reality, Jay L. Garfield
Philosophy: Faculty Publications
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Book Review Of 'Retheorizing Religion In Nepal' By Gregory Price Grieve, Linda Iltis
Book Review Of 'Retheorizing Religion In Nepal' By Gregory Price Grieve, Linda Iltis
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
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Seeing The Buddha In The Book Of Job Through Maimonides's Theory Of Providence And Eliade's Theory Of Hierophany, Hoi Shan Chong
Seeing The Buddha In The Book Of Job Through Maimonides's Theory Of Providence And Eliade's Theory Of Hierophany, Hoi Shan Chong
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The current study is an unusual reading of the book of Job with a focus on the intellectual transformation of Job. The reading is stimulated by Maimonides' theory of divine providence and facilitated by Eliade's theory of hierophany. The sequence of reading follows a reorganized order and is divided into three parts: the speeches of Job and his friends, the Lord's speech, and the comparison of Job before and after the Lord's speech. The study ends with a suggestion that the experience of Job's intellectual transformation corresponds to the experience of the Buddha's enlightenment. The reading ignores the enigmatic issues …
A Christian Apologetic To The Doctrine Of Grace In Shin Buddhism, Jeremy Scott Roseman
A Christian Apologetic To The Doctrine Of Grace In Shin Buddhism, Jeremy Scott Roseman
Masters Theses
This thesis offers an apologetic defense on why grace in Shin Buddhism is not comparable to that of Christianity. This is to defend the faith against those that would propagate pluralism and to defend the uniqueness of Christ himself and his superiority to that of bodhisattvas, ultimately claiming the superiority of Christianity as the truth in light of various world religions. The second purpose is to paint an accurate picture of Shin Buddhism and its meanings behind the use of the word grace. It is also needed to demonstrate fairness and respect between the two different faiths by presenting accurate …
Ciis Today, Spring 2010 Issue, Ciis
Ciis Today, Spring 2010 Issue, Ciis
CIIS Today
This volume is the Spring 2010 issue of CIIS Today, the Magazine of the California Institute of Integral Studies.
An Argument Against The Buddhist Concept Of Dependent Origination Through William Lane Craig’S Kalam Cosmological Argument, James David Lynch
An Argument Against The Buddhist Concept Of Dependent Origination Through William Lane Craig’S Kalam Cosmological Argument, James David Lynch
Masters Theses
The concept of dependent origination is essential in understanding Buddhist thought, for it is central to everything that they teach and believe. Without a first cause, or God, man is left with neither sense of hope nor purpose. The central aims of this thesis are to establish that the universe has a beginning and to demonstrate that this beginning is the result of a first cause. In proving these claims to be true, William Lane Craig's kalam cosmological argument is considered. Through this argument Craig points to philosophical arguments such as the problem of actual infinites and the impossibility of …
Comment And Discussion: Pramāņa Are Factive - A Response To Jonardon Ganeri, Matthew Dasti, Stephen H. Phillips
Comment And Discussion: Pramāņa Are Factive - A Response To Jonardon Ganeri, Matthew Dasti, Stephen H. Phillips
Philosophy Faculty Publications
In this article, the author discusses aspects of the review made by Jonardan Ganeri on the collaborative translation of the first chapter of “Epistemology of Perception: Ga·ngeśa’s Tattvacintāma·ni, Jewel of Reflection on the Truth (About Epistemology): The Perception Chapter (Pratyak·sa-Kha·n·da),” by Stephen Phillips and N. S. Ramanuja Tatacharya. The author says that Ganeri argues in opposition of Phillips’ and Ramanuja Tatacharya’ interpretation on the nature of pramā·na
A Dharma School Lesson, Alice Murata
A Dharma School Lesson, Alice Murata
Counselor Education Emeritus Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Gender Equity And Human Rights, Karma Lekshe Tsomo Phd
Gender Equity And Human Rights, Karma Lekshe Tsomo Phd
Theology and Religious Studies: Faculty Scholarship
The religious traditions that help shape society’s attitudes toward women and also women’s attitudes toward themselves often send mixed messages. The world’s major religions—Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam—assert that women and men have equal potential, whether for liberation or in the sight of a higher being, but social realities reveal a stark contradiction between rhetoric and reality. Women continue to lack equal representation in social, political, and religious institutions. For many, the failure of the world’s religions to live up to their professed ideals not only exposes their lack of social responsiveness to the needs of human society but …
Beyond Belief: Japanese Approaches To The Meaning Of Religion, James Mark Shields
Beyond Belief: Japanese Approaches To The Meaning Of Religion, James Mark Shields
Faculty Journal Articles
For several centuries, Japanese scholars have argued that their nation’s culture—including its language, religion and ways of thinking—is somehow unique. The darker side of this rhetoric, sometimes known by the English term “Japanism” (nihon-jinron), played no small role in the nationalist fervor of the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While much of the so-called “ideology of Japanese uniqueness” can be dismissed, in terms of the Japanese approach to “religion,” there may be something to it. This paper highlights some distinctive—if not entirely unique—features of the way religion has been categorized and understood in Japanese tradition, contrasting these with Western (i.e., …
Can Compassionate Practice Also Be Good Legal Practice?: Answers From The Lives Of Buddhist Lawyers, Deborah J. Cantrell
Can Compassionate Practice Also Be Good Legal Practice?: Answers From The Lives Of Buddhist Lawyers, Deborah J. Cantrell
Publications
What does it mean to say that one is a "good lawyer" in the United States? The dominant view is that a lawyer is a zealous advocate owing loyalty to, and taking direction from, the client. The lawyer is singularly focused and hyper-rationality is prized. This article challenges that narrative. Using the real lives of a group of lawyers across the United States, this article offers rich and nuanced descriptive data about the possibilities of "good lawyering" through compassion, equanimity, and an expanded notion of honesty. This article contributes importantly to the debate about what it means to be a …
Adventism Among The World Religions, Gary Krause
Adventism Among The World Religions, Gary Krause
Journal of Adventist Mission Studies
No abstract provided.
Dhamma Education: The Transmission And Reconfiguration Of The Sri Lankan Buddhist Tradition In Toronto, Deba Mitra Bhikkhu
Dhamma Education: The Transmission And Reconfiguration Of The Sri Lankan Buddhist Tradition In Toronto, Deba Mitra Bhikkhu
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
This research documents the transition of a religious tradition from a foreign-born generation to a new generation who call Canada home. It examines how first-generation Sri Lankan Buddhists in Toronto transmit their Buddhist tradition to their Canadian children, how the latter receive what is passed on to them, and what happens within the tradition through the process of transmission and reception. These issues are of paramount concern not only for Buddhist communities in North America but also for other immigrant and refugee groups undergoing the process of resettlement. Working with two Sri Lankan temples in Toronto, the Toronto Mahavihara and …
Women As Leaders In Buddhism, Karma Lekshe Tsomo Phd
Women As Leaders In Buddhism, Karma Lekshe Tsomo Phd
Theology and Religious Studies: Faculty Scholarship
For Buddhists, the epitome of enlightened leadership is the Buddha himself. The Buddha, the “awakened one,” led by teaching a path to awakening that is open to all. The path to awakening – a process of purifying the mind of afflictions, such as greed, hatred, and ignorance – can be followed by women and men alike. Traditionally, however, the fact that the Buddha, the model of human perfection, was male seemed to imply to future generations that men were more somehow more capable of awakening than women. This impression was bolstered by the eight special rules attributed to the Buddha …